I think I said they were one of the most. . .not the most. And this
is coming from living there two years as a minority American. Things
in America are not quite peachy yet, but it's sure a long way.
. . .from Hungary and yes Eastern Europe in general. That's why the
starting points for WWI and WWII came from Europe.

AsI am mew to this list let me say hullo to all subscribers
to Hungarian list.
About the dialects problem, it would seem that we British
have a lot to answer for when we spread the
English language to most of the planet. ( :-) ).
My main area of academic interest is in the field of
pensions and income maintainence among older women
in CEE countries, particularly Hungary.
Anyone else out there share my interests?

On Thu, 10 Nov 1994 00:22:16 GMT JELIKO said:
>The reason for requoting Chamberlain was to STRESS the point that both then>and now, many of the western politicos know in fact very little about>Central Europe, not because I was worrying about the Germans again.
Understood. In fact, western politicos really know very little about
any other part of the world, but depend on essentially very superficial
analyses provided for them by American college graduates who have been
educated in post-modernist departments of history and political science.
My reaction was a knee-jerk one that comes everytime I hear
the name Chamberlain. Certainly his lack of understanding of the Central
European situation was fatal for a lot of people. And I can still see
Chamberlain's fatuous smile as he waved that piece of paper as if it
were the Holy Grail. Maybe Tibor Benke is right and we should return
to the cave.
Cheers,
Charles

Hi all,
I am a student in Engineering planning to visit Hungary,
and would like to get in touch with Professors at the
Technical University of Budapest. I was wondering if anyone
could give me an e-mail address with which I could
contact Faculty members there.
Thank you in advance,
Andy Veluswami

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Sandor Lengyel writes:
>ibokor writes:>>>>apply all the more so to the independence of catalonia from spain, the>>>basque country from spain>>>hawaii from the rest of the usa,>>>i asked whether those supporting>>>such a separation in the case of yugoslavia would be as enthusiastic in>>>the other cases.>>In every case for the above, my answer is yes. Since I feel that freedom>is the most important consideration.>You can add Quebec from Canada. I hope it will not happen, but the french>do have the right to separate, if they want to. Union always should be>voluntary, never by force.
I must second Sandor's opinion, adding that the Mohawks and the Cree also
have the right to separate from Quebec. On the other hand, perhaps we will
some day learn how to live in pluralistic multicultural world and learn
that we are here to benefit the rest of the Earth and the biosphere and
not the other way around.
Tibor Benke

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